12 Facts About Meredith Tax

Meredith Jane Tax was an American feminist writer and political activist.

Meredith Tax graduated from Whitefish Bay High School in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, in 1960.

Meredith Tax was a National Merit Scholar and was in the twelfth graduating class of Brandeis University in 1964.

Meredith Tax spent the next four years at Birkbeck College, University of London, on Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships.

Meredith Tax's collected papers are at Duke University's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Meredith Tax wrote Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights, which criticizes left-wing support of right-wing Islamism.

Meredith Tax wrote many political and literary essays, for The Nation, The Village Voice, The Guardian, Dissent, openDemocracy, and other publications.

Meredith Tax was a member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, and was the founding co-chair of the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse, a pioneering reproductive rights organization.

In 2022, Meredith Tax wrote about the need for a feminist movement on par with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, which was disputed by the organizers of the Women's March.

Meredith Tax was Jewish and was married first to Jonathan Schwartz and later to Marshall Berman.

Meredith Tax had two children, Corey Tax and Elijah Tax-Berman.

Meredith Tax died on September 25,2022, from breast cancer, in Teaneck, New Jersey.